Matthew Hunter wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:30:06AM -0500, Casey Rousseau <casey at trinityhartford.org> wrote: > > Erik Berman wrote: > > > "Fellowship of the Rings" (call it what you will, but I can't say that > > > it is a pale reflection of the novel) > > > > FotR is a great flick. I haven't yet seen the longer edition that's on the > > Platinum edition DVD. It may add back the one major character (Tom > > Bombadil) and two or three chapters that were not in the theatrical release, > > but this was much closer to the text than Dune. > > Tom Bombadil does not come back; his sequence is rather pointless > and the movie is already 4 hours long, so I don't blame them. > > > Anyway, psionics are not easy to convey well on the screen. Not nearly as > > easy as simply putting the text in italics. > > The obvious way would be to understand how psionics are being > used as an analog, rather than to directly map them. > > Remember, what Dragaera calls "psionics", we call "cell > phones"... Daymar would disagree. His skill at psionics was a key plot point in Jhereg.